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I don't know for certain, but I doubt they'll put up the non-album tracks. At the moment they have what appears to be the original songs to Miles Ahead. The song titles are all called "Miles Ahead" (with different times) from the album titled Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (Box Set.) I just own the reissue of Miles Ahead which added 4 bonus songs. These don't appear to be on iTunes. Nor are there any other cuts from the Miles & Gil box available. Most of the cuts are from compilations, although Cookin' is available (but not the other "in'" titles.) I've heard that with some albums that sometimes 1 or 2 songs aren't available for downloading. I believe this is the case with The Who's Quadrophenia. While this practice probably varies by label, I would be surprised if Columbia would allow a rare "goody" to be available for 99 cents when they know that many fans will sell their old discs and buy the big pricey set just for a few new songs etc. Well, I just made it through the new order of The Complete Concert on the box. My word, I never had a problem with the sound quality before, but this does sound better. And I handled the new ordering just fine!

My live-in likes it. Probably the main reason is her favorite drink is a White Russian (aka Caucasian), and whenever we watch it (I found a copy for $6!), we try to drink along. But she also thinks Turturro's Jesus character is a hoot, and she's a fan of Buscemi too. Oh, and Sam Elliot's appearance always makes her smile. And The Dude is such a likable character too. Love it!

But you're not just buying music, you're getting a deluxe molded "onyx" tabletop spirit box! I'm sure Mrs. Moose will be pleased that you're now looking beyond mere music and thinking of jazzing up the surroundings in other ways. So maybe you won't be filing them on the shelf. And psssst, this one sounds harder to hide!

Did I miss this post? Where was it? Hmm, sorry I can't find it (my ISP is acting up which is making mere posting difficult.) It was from a thread long ago. I remember it just because I was in major Henderson accumulation mode at the time. As I recall Rainyday's story went along the lines that she doesn't try to talk up the talent at clubs other than to say "nice show" (or the equivalent) if she happens to pass by on the way to the door. Uh, sorry, I'm back from the bar myself so I'm not sure exactly now how exactly the story goes, but perhaps she mentioned how she'd enjoyed his performance the time before and he mentioned he remembered seeing her. (Hiccup on my part.) Anyway, her tale is not in this thread. I think I need some water! P.W.I. - posting while intoxicated.

I succumbed too. I was pretty sure I was getting it (have 3 albums) but the price pushed me to "buy." One thing I've noticed about hanging around here is that I now have mentally moved the decimal over one place. So the price of the box feels like it's just $7 and change! And what the hell, it comes with a book! You HAVE to buy it, right? Added 3 Conns and the Teagarden Father of Jazz Trombone as well. This after the 7 Steps box and K2s that are coming this week. Is it Christmas?

The same could be said of Mobley. I'm lucky that somehow I figured out pretty early on what you're saying about Joe applied to Mobley as well. Not everyone has to be the 1st to step on the moon to be noticed or enjoyed. Love 'em both to pieces. Damn fine players are a treasure. If they compose too, even more power to 'em. By the way, I love your modest story about Joe "pretending" to remember you. Though that sounds a classy kind of thing he'd do to be polite, I'm tempted to think he really did remember you!

Not jazz (but on Columbia) & I hate to bring it up as I love it so, but Johnny Cash at Folsom had manufactured applause. And here I thought the inmates were just glad to see him.

I have yet to win anything either, as I've strictly used it for bargain shopping rather than "I must have it." (Also I haven't tried very often either.) My favorite loss was for the 3 disc Richard Thompson box "Watching The Dark." I stopped bidding after shipping costs pushed it above $28. A week later I went to my favorite local CD shop and found it used for $24!

I'm more likely to play Smiley Smile or Friends (I skip one song on each) than Smile or Pet Sounds. Not saying the 1st 2 are better than Pet Sounds, but I just like the mood more. If Smiley Smile is a failure, gimme more! And it sounds so gorgeous on the reissue.

Speaking of pre-orders, The Grateful Dead Movie is available as a pre-order in all sorts of combinations (would you like a T-shirt with your order?) They're releasing a 5 disc CD set as well - some music is in the movie, some isn't. Their unique trinket to get you to pre-order from them is that they'll include a 6 inch strip of film from one of the retired movie reels with the DVD. Cute. The latest box (Wake thru Built To Last) is available to pre-order as well. And they reveal the extras on the remasters. Lotsa lotsa stuff. Too much in future jazz purchases is spoken for, so I reckon I'm just getting the movie (sans the filmstrip.)

I think it took a post about Ben Wallace in conjunction with this guy for me to finally see it for what it is. (Duh, I never tried it out to see the name of it!) For the longest time I was seeing the hair as a cracked open walnut shell. I wasn't sure what it was supposed to mean. A tough nut to crack? But the face wasn't exactly shaped like a walnut, and it didn't look to happy either. Also my guess at what it meant didn't seem to fit a lot of posts. I can be really slow to catch on sometimes. (Insert rolling eyes afro emoticon!)

Not living in hurricane or tornado country the most likely emergency would be fire. If I was grabbing discs I used to joke that I'd hurriedly grab something in the D section (Davis & Dolphy.) If I missed right I'd come up with some Ellington so that'd work too. I might pick the letter M now (Mingus, Marsh, Monk.) Hmm, M for Mosaic? I doubt I'd really have time to be grabbing music in a fire unless the cat is very cooperative. And even in that case, it's best to get the hell out of there fast. But for a hurricane evacuation I'd probably do what you did. It would be tempting to take something loved but not hard to replace like the Coltrane Village Vanguard set. Ugh, if space is a concern do you just take the Mosaic discs, try to take the booklet too but not the box? Eek, that's why I don't live down south! Glad for ya that you were able to go home & reunite your discs with each other!

I haven't priced machines in a few years but I believe the Mosaic price differential isn't as dear when considering laptops, at least with the 12 inch iBook. Or that's the way it was when I bought my 1st Mac almost 3 years ago. Mmm, the Kool Aid is good Wesbed. No spyware, no viruses, it's Utopia on planet earth when you're online using OSX. Cause we know when you see the wider price differential that exists with the desktops, you're thinking "Oh man, that's gonna cost me a Farmer/Golson, a Mulligan and a Select at least." Is it true that you would like to see Franklin removed from the $100 and replaced by the cover photo of a 6 disc Mosaic produced by Malcom?

The Eugene show was fun to be at. It was a beautiful day, it sure looked cool seeing them all together on stage, and the sight of all those puffs of smoke during "Rainy Day Woman" while making your own was good to be apart of. I remember hoping the combo would approach that of Dylan & The Band but it didn't quite work out that way. Still, it was fun. I've heard stories that Dylan and the boys had been partying pretty hard with regional author & prankster Ken Kesey before the show. The oft repeated tale is that Dylan had sucked down a fifth of whiskey before he went on. As his last album was Knocked Out Loaded perhaps he had. If I recall correctly Garcia had put together a different set of songs for the Dylan & The Dead album but Dylan vetoed it. It's too bad as the tour wasn't as bad as the album makes it out to be (or at least one could cherry pick a better 35 minutes to wrap around "Frankie Lee.") The rehearsal version of "Boy In The Bubble" is so terrific I always have a hard time remembering what else is played over the 3 discs. Phil's bass on it is so damn good on it. It would have made a great 1st set song for them.

I'm with you on the front. Ugh. I guess the thing that surprises me is that it took them so long to hide Jefferson's ponytail. Oh well, Washington is still a hippie on the front of the quarter. (Wigs count. )

Another great Tosh album is Equal Rights. "Downpresser Man" & "Stepping Razor" are terrific. I also liked Live & Dangerous Boston 1976 way more than AMG does, though I'd rank Equal Rights as more important. As you've probably guessed the remaining Marley studio releases are all pretty darn good. Rastaman Vibration, Uprising, Survival and Kaya have been favorites at one time or another. The live for the radio Talking Blues set is very good and Peter & Bunny are on it. It often trades as a boot under the dates 10/31/73 or 12/1,2 or 3/73. Black Uhuru's Red I'll echo the earlier Burning Spear recs. Now it's time for me to take down some names myself!

Oh, I guess it's just if you're going to play the game of name 3 albums, I'd pick something else for the 3rd choice. But you're right, there are many fine songs on there (you forgot to mention "Money, Money" ), though I greatly prefer 'em live. Obviously some love the studio. However if one likes The Dead then Mars makes sense, as "Pride" & "Unbroken Chain" appear on it, and those are songs that are now played but only the latter was ever played live by the Grateful Dead. Count me as one who was horrified when I heard the breakout (on tape) in '95. Insert another winky here ------>. More info on why the original poster might want to wait to buy Mars Hotel. A blurb about the upcoming box (Beyond Description, release date Oct. 26) states that it will include an acoustic demo of "Unbroken Chain," along with live versions of "Scarlet Begonias" & "Let It Rock." Along with remastering it will also get the HDCD encoding (plays on regular CD players, but if you have the chip for HDCD you'll appreciate it.) As I said before, I'm not sure when the albums will be available separately, but likely sometime in 2005. Peace.

Look for the recent reissues of American Beauty & Working Man's Dead as the sound is much improved and you get some extra cuts as well. Not sure about what kind of friends would rec Mars Hotel , but if you really want to buy it try waiting as that is going to be remastered as part of a giant box. I'm not saying get the box (lord knows the world needs a 24 bit version of Go To Heaven ) but at some later date it will be available individually (probably sometime in 2005.) Personally I think they sound their best live, and there's a ton of fine Dick's Picks, or there's always (if you don't have access) finding a friend with a high speed connection and downloading tons of great live stuff. Though American Beauty & Working Man's are terrific and well worth owning. edit- Duh, I was reading too fast & now see you bought the 1st 2. Good work!

I just got this e-mail from CD Universe: "Order Status: Processing We are working on getting all of the items on your order ready to ship." I don't seem to recall getting a message like this so early. While I don't think it means they're going to send it tomorrow, it kind of surprised me. Anyway, they must have known I needed to add some K2s to the order so I immediately went to their site and added some to the order.

We must have been very very bad in Oregon, as the station out of Portland last night had some show featuring Tony Orlando and Debby Boone. After that was "Cliff Richard: The World Tour." Tonight it's "Yanni In Concert: Live at the Acropolis." Sheeeeesh, what did we do to deserve this? Nothing came up on a search at OPB's website either. Maybe we're being punished for not donating enough.

I have 5 and I'm pretty sure I'll get 7 as I'm still young enough (in jazz years) to benefit from it. And I do like the writing and it's pretty inexpensive by the pound. Plus it's pretty good exercise holding it open as you read.

Yeah, I'd say it happens with more than 10% (but < 20%) of my picks. Once I had an order of 3 discs where 2 didn't come through, and that stinks. But I've gotten so many good deals and hard to find titles that I'll keep doing business with them. I've also spotted the CD Warehouse stickers on discs. I've also ordered used discs that arrived new, yet was charged the used price. And they certainly are getting to be a bigger & looser confederation. I live within 100 miles of the Portland store so anything from there gets here quickly. However, anytime a disc comes from Mesquite, TX or Tulsa, OK, it takes almost a month to get here. Now I know, but the first time it happened I contacted them after 3 weeks and they credited my account assuming it was lost. When it finally arrived (being a good boy) I let them know and was willing to pay them, but they let me have it for free.

If they were used someone just got 'em ahead of you. That happens. They may have only had 1 copy of the title throughout their nationwide group of participating stores. I got a notification yesterday for a used copy of Sweet Rain, but by the time I responded it 'twas gone. Foiled again!

This is good news as I was concerned about the Miles box traveling alone through the post. It looks like Brubeck & Hawkins will hold his hand on the long journey. Oh...and Blakey too, though I guess he'll have to hold onto something else. I've started looking forward to these releases more than the RVGs (not that I still don't look forward to those.)